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1) Spy runner
Author
Publisher
GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's 1953, and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of 12-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake's mother says that Mr. Shubin knew Jake's dad, who went missing in...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In "War at the Snow White Motel," Rex and his family are vacationing in Vermont. A thoughtless act launches him into war with an older teenager at their motel, but a much bigger conflict -- the Vietnam War -- looms large on the horizon. Ant wants to join the #FridaysForFuture movement -- and impressing the new girl at school is only one good reason why. Joseph and Danny are determined to right an old wrong, no matter the consequences. Michel takes...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1954, this compelling historical novel tells the story of a young girl's struggles and triumphs in the aftermath of World War II. The war is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran father's unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mother's stash of banned library books a secret,...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
If thirteen-year-old Marty Rafner had his way, he'd spend the summer of 1953 warming the bench for his baseball team, listening to Yankees games on the radio, and avoiding preparations for his bar mitzvah. Instead, he has to deal with FBI agents staking out his house because his parents-professors at the local college-are suspected communist sympathizers. Marty knows what happens to communists, or Reds, as his friends call them: They lose their jobs,...
Author
Series
Apothecary series volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
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